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Apocalypse Or Racial Kumbaya? America After Nov. 8

Code Switch

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Society & Culture

4.614.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2016

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In just a few days, the election will be over. But the racism, anger and fear that have surfaced will still be with us. Gene and Shereen talk with Carol Anderson, historian and author of "White Rage," and Whitney Dow, creator of the Whiteness Project, about what happens to those feelings after Nov. 8.

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0:00.0

Over the course of this long election slog, we've heard from a lot of white people who

0:09.3

are really upset.

0:10.8

And Donald Trump's candidacy has given them a really powerful platform to voice all

0:14.7

of those intense feelings.

0:16.0

I'm afraid for the whole country.

0:17.8

I think we have a very big recession.

0:20.8

It's been a dark eight years and I mean a dark eight years.

0:25.1

We have a flood of immigrants come across the border, flood in our healthcare system,

0:29.2

flood in our education system, flood in our prisons.

0:32.4

You'll see a real downturn in the standard living you know, I know it's American.

0:36.0

I'm afraid for our kids, our grandkids and everything else, what's coming.

0:40.1

I've watched my country go from a place where I felt safe to a very unsafe world.

0:47.1

I don't feel safe anymore here.

0:49.6

All right, so on this episode of CODE, which what is going to happen to all that energy

0:55.2

after November 8th, which is of course only six days from now, it's kind of a moment

0:59.1

of truth for America.

1:00.1

I'm Jean Demby.

1:01.1

And I'm Shrine Marisol Mirage.

1:03.5

And Jean, we're freaked out, right?

1:06.3

By all this racist stuff we've been hearing for months now.

1:08.7

Can I speak for you?

1:09.7

You always do.

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